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Officials have vowed to provide more information on how COVID-19 is affecting specific neighbourhoods after criticism that B.C. is withholding crucial figures from the public.
Despite that, the provincial health officer defended the province’s release of figures, insisting officials release as much information as they can and denying that B.C. falls behind other provinces in terms of transparency.
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“We are releasing more than what other provinces are releasing,” Dr. Bonnie Henry said Friday, adding that every month she and Health Minister Adrian Dix present COVID-19 modelling information based on information compiled by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. “We have been very open from the very beginning where we presented as much as we could by areas.”
Then one day, a sheet of glass fell and cut his arm. Singh was rushed to the hospital.
“I was not provided with any safety gloves, safety shoes, a hard hat. If I had even one of those, maybe I would’ve been saved from that injury.”
Singh had a hard time filing for workers’ compensation because his employer denied that he used to work for him.
“It was the hardest time I’ve ever had in my life,” said Singh. “I had to go through it all alone. And I was fighting with my own body too.”
The claim was eventually approved, but to this day Singh’s arm has not perfectly healed.
Communities with a high proportion of South Asian residents have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic as many live in multigenerational households and work in frontline jobs, according to the founder of the South Asian Mental Health Alliance.